Monday – December 9, 2025

Love/Respect A Soap Opera Writer Day

National Brownie Day

National Blue Collar Day

National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1794 – A fire destroyed much of New Orleans’ French Quarter
1863 – Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
1940 – Bears beat the Redskins 73-0 to win NFL title
1941 – The U.S. officially declared war on Japan 
1969 – Nixon announces the war is ending in Vietnam
1980 – John Lennon shot and killed

1985 – The Byte Shop in Mission Valley CA sells all 50 of the first Apple I comps for $666.66 each
1993 – NAFTA signed into law 
(It’s been replaced)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– SEN ERIC SCHMITT VS. STEPHANOPOULOS OVER DRUG CARTELS, BLOWING UP BOATS, ETC

– SEN KENNEDY HAS DETAILS ON SICKENING SOMALI FRAUD AND SCAMMING TAXPAYERS

– TOM HOMAN IS A HERO – RESCUING THE CHILDREN BIDEN, PELOSI AND DEMS ABANDONED

– ANDRY, VULGAR DEMS GATHER OUTSIDE CHURCH WHERE VP VANCE AND FAMILY ARE WORSHIPPING

– PRES TRUMP WITH MAJOR LOVE FOR SEC OF STATE RUBIO

– TRUMP HOSTING THE KENNEDY CENTER AWARDS — ‘IF I CAN’T BEAT OUT JIMMY KIMMEL…’

– AT THE KENNEDY CENTER MEDALS CEREMONY

– FOR THE 200TH TIME, CARVILLE CLAIMS THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP

– NEWEST DEM REP CLAIMS ICE SHOT AT HER WHILE SHE WAS PEACEFULLY PROTESTING THEM

– STEPHEN MILLER ON THE SOMALI FRAUD – MAYBE THE BIGGEST WELFARE FRAUD IN U.S. HISTORY

– MN AG KEITH ELLISON SAYS WE SHOULDN’T POLITICIZE HIS STATE’S CORRUPTION AS HE POLITICIZES IT

– DR OZ AND HIS PEOPLE FOUND EVEN MORE FRAUD IN MINNESOTA

– ILHAN OMAR MENTIONS THE ‘SEC OF EGG’ (WHO?)

– KING CHARLES SOUNDS LIKE HE WOULD ENJOY HANGING OUT WITH ILHAN OMAR

– NICOLE WALLACE IS A PIECE OF WORK — SHE SPEAKS FROM BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH

– HILLARY CLINTON IS SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD – THEY WANT CONTROL OF SOCIAL MEDIA

– ROSIE O’DONNELL SEEMS TO BE UNSPOOLING AGAIN

– ROSIE IS NOT LISTENING TO HER THERAPIST — THE DOC SAYS GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA

– THE VIEW CLAIMS TRUMP NEVER LAUGHS – AND SAYS THAT’S WHAT DICTATORS DO (GROK DISAGREES)

– RICHARD GERE IS NOW JOINING THE DEMS IN CALLING TRUMP NAMES

– BLUE BRACELETS? ARE DEMS GOING TO START WEARING POLITICAL ID BRACELETS?

– FLASHBACK – SCARBOROUGH AND RFK JR IN 2005 TALKING VACCINE SCHEDULES

More News From DC

– MIRANDA DEVINE WONDERS WHY IT TOOK FIVE YEARS TO FIND DC BOMBER

– HHS CHANGES THE NAME ON DR LEVINE’S PORTRAIT (SHE IS NOW A HE, AGAIN)

– THE BULWARK SAYS NOEM’S GETTING THE BOOT FROM TRUMP (COREY LEWANDOWSKI SAYS ‘NOT TRUE’

– TREASURY SEC SEES STRONG RETAIL HOLIDAY SEASON AND SOLID GDP

– EU FINES ELON MUSK – HE WANTS THEM TO BREAK UP

THINK TWICE ABOUT OPENING YOUR MOUTH IN EUROPE – ANYTHING COULD GET YOU LOCKED UP

General News

– THE SOMALI FRAUD PROGRAMS ARE NOT JUST IN MN, THEY’RE IN MAINE TOO

– THINK THE NYC MAYOR ELECT IS GONNA WORK WITH ICE, NOPE, JUST THE OPPOSITE

– HOWARD’S END – CALIFORNIA APPLIANCE RETAILER IS SHUTTING ALL LOCATIONS

– POPE LEO IS NOT GONNA BE PLEASED THAT NOTRE DAME AIN’T IN THE PLAYOFFS

– PENN STATE HIRES A COACH FROM IOW

– WATCH AS MOM TRIES TO UNDERSTAND HER 6-YR-OLD’S MATH HOMEWORK (YEAH, A FIRST GRADER)

– CLIMATE CHANGE? NOT HAPPENING IN WEST VIRGINIA

Other News Catching My Eye

– DUDE, STOP WITH THE WILD MUSHROOM FORAGING – PEOPLE ARE DYING

– THE OFFICIAL WARNING FROM THE STATE

– HOW DO YOU MAKE MONEY IN TECH? TECH ETIQUETTE TO THE NERDS

– I AM KINDA OF INTERESTED IN WHO MIGHT BE MILEY CIRUS’ BIOLOGICAL MOM